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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Richard Rorty · c. 1989

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  1. The point of these examples is that our sense of solidarity is strongest when those with whom solidarity is expressed are thought of as “one of us,” where “us” means something smaller and more local than the human race.
  2. The liberal ironist just wants our chances of being kind, of avoiding the humiliation of others, to be expanded by redescription.

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